Bad tuna sends seven Subway customers to the hospital in Vancouver

Posted: September 24th, 2011 - 5:36am by Doug Powell

Seven customers at a Subway sandwich outlet in the international terminal of the Vancouver airport were taken to hospital on Friday afternoon suffering from an apparent bout of food poisoning.

Vancouver Coastal Health spokesman Justin Karasick said the suspected cause of their illness was some tuna that may not have been stored at the right temperature.

The customers are believed to have been stricken by a form of food poisoning known as scombroid, which occurs when there is a high level of histamine in raw or uncooked fish, said Mr. Karasick.

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Categories: Wacky and Weird
Tags: food safety, Illness, Scombroid, Subway, tuna, Vancouver

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Andrew says:

So presumably there are long-haul flights that have people in them that ate there while awaiting their flights who are now violently ill and, if they originated in Vancouver, will either over the Pacific or the Arctic when they become ill.

Posted on September 24th, 2011 - 6:08pm

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